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What kind of sign from God is it if a young woman (not a virgin) gets pregnant?
The king, as well as the eunuch keeping the virgins, know how to tell if a woman is a virgin.
As to Josephus and "uncle", do you reject all of Josephus or just this understanding?
loved her, and brought her up as if she had been his daughter, and called her so, as the Targum. The Rabbins, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe, say, he took her in order to make her his wife; and so the Septuagint render it; though perhaps no more may be intended by that version than that he brought her up to woman's estate.
Like I said, there's all sorts of translations and scholars who look at the verse and can argue either way. My challenge is for you to prove that Esther, Mordecai, the chamberlain, and all the rest involved in the search, disobeyed the king's command to bring in the virgins (2:2). It simply couldn't have happened. Everyone knows how to tell if a girl is a virgin (I already pointed out Scripture), regardless of how some of translated that verse for "woman's estate" to "for himself".
So appreciate the conversation, but like the virgin sign of Isaiah, it won't do either of us any good to argue for a non-virgin as equivalent to and rather than a virgin.
Discussion between Adithia Kusno and SLM
Discussion between Adithia Kusno and SLM